Turkey Day Eve

I had to go to the grocery store today.

This is sort of what it was like.

CS4 Whooo

I recently got ahold of CS4 and I must say holy shit! Totally worth it!! If for nothing else, the rotating canvas feature. INKING JUST GOT A LOT LESS PAINFUL GUYS.

Which is good because this guy's wings would've been a nightmare without it.


And a few commissions...



And a potato. 8D

Sitting

I liked drawing people sitting today. These two are sadly very similar in composition. oAo I'm such a hack. I couldn't help it, it just seemed so cute and appropriate for both of these commissions! Plus its so nice and COMPACT, while still being dynamic. It's hard fitting a full figure on an 8.5x11 piece of paper and still have room to put facial detail and stuff, so I have to find creative ways to bend the figure around to fit the amount of detail I want to into them. I discovered the SITTING one today (obviously) and was so pleased with myself I had to use it twice. ; A;

More Commissions

A few more.

Commissions

I should post more often, but I forget. Here's some commissions I've been doing.

What is wrong with me

I was just drawing limbs going in any which way today. Trying to keep myself to 2 pages in my sketchbook a day to get back in the groove.

Kalle running like an idiot because NOBODY RUNS THAT WAY. Perhaps he's frolicking.


Simon on a..er...girly day? Apparently Simon is the next Monroe.

Some Sketches

Alister

It's about damn time I'm able to draw this bastard. I've been bouncing around ideas for his design for a long time now, but never seemed to be able to nail anything down. I wanted him to have assembled his clothes out of lots of varying mix-matching pieces, sewn together haphazardly. I will have more fun with it when I actually get to paint all the different materials and textures in his clothing.

Stretch

Probably the best posture Ratio ever has.


She looks like she's about to bow down dramatically to a candle-filled altar. Which may not be completely beyond her... as long as it was an altar to some sort of anti-germ god. The God Purell.

RUSTYRUSTY

Arargh. This whole drawing thing is so high maintenance. Don't draw for a month or so and my chops go to crapola. What's up with that? ;) It took me like 3 hours to do get a sketch that didn't look like I drew it five years ago. Need to keep drawing more frequently. Here is the result of the pained drawing session - and it's not even all that good.

Personal Stuff

Picking up drawing on my own has been SLOOWWWWW going. In such a creative rut. I blame WoW!! >_<

Trying to be better though and draw a bit. I honestly WANT to draw more, I just feel creatively constipated. That's attractive, for sure. Resurrecting this blog is a pretty harsh reminder of how little i've improved over two years. Jeez. u_u I really need to get my ass in gear.

Under Lock & Key Rebirth

I am resurrecting UL&K. <3 Since Tessa does most of the work on Without Void, I'm going to be taking over for a lot of the UL&K stuff. While she used to thumb chapters out for me, she's not going to be doing that anymore. So I'm on my own!! But its ok - coz I can do this!!

This will be an incredible learning experience for me. I rely on Tessa so much for her paneling and comic-ing experience, but hopefully I've learned a thing or two from watching her so many years and working with her. We'll see. Finishing up chapter 4 on my own will tell.

So here's what I have so far.

FF7 Series Start

Since I'm pretty sure we've got A-Kon tables, I've started working on some serious fanarts for prints. :> And while I was driving home I was struck with inspiration for some FF7 ones.

These would be a series, each character being his own piece. Decided to do my power-team. Cid, Cloud, and Vincent. I love these guys. <3

Here are the thumbs, after much reworking and composition adjustment.


And Cloud... cleaned up. There's something infinitely less awesome about it when I actually drew it though. I still like the thumbnail more... but I'm going to sleep on it and see what I think in the morning.

blah blah blah eyeshield blah

I am way behind on my resolution to fill a sketchbook every two months. :C I need to get my ass kicked on this. I am also out of FUCKING EYESHIELD. I will have to read it once a week like everyone else now. I'm sure my friends want to all punch me in the face coz they're sick of hearing about Eyeshield.

But while we're on the topic of Eyeshield.... 8D

Yesterday Tess and I went to Kinkos to run copies of her comics and cut down her Bristol. And she had these cool 3x17" strips of Bristol left over. And I decided I wanted to draw something cool on them.

...so I'm drawing a series of Eyeshield fanarts. I figure I can sell them at A-kon (if we can ever secure tables) or something. Mostly I'm just indulging. >.> Maybe I could turn them into bookmarks.... or compile them all into a series. DUNNO.

And I drew Rui first... coz I <3 Rui. For reasons I can't explain. He's a badass.

Gorilla Fighter Sketch

The sketch I'm thinking of using for Erik's Gorilla Fighter artbook. I know what you're thinking. WHERE ARE THE GORILLAS. I wanted to maybe try something less literal, and maybe something no one else would do... not that it's incredibly original or anything, but I try.

I'm hoping this is actually somewhat vaguely Gorilla-ish, so Erik doesn't have to find a nice way to say. Sarah, wtf is this shit. Anyways. Gonna let the picture speak for itself naooo.


PS - He does have pants. Imserious.

Moar sketches <3

Some gift sketches. 8D Not my characters!

And a topless Kalle. >.> Heavily influenced by watching Gurren Lagann. I NEED MOAR WES. 8< I am your crack dealer too. I CONTROL YOUR EYESHIELD.

Sketch and Design Drama

I'm so out of practice with anatomy. 8 ^8


Character on the left is my own, Kalle. Guy on the right is a friend's, named Zelmar.

Reading Eyeshield21 has been such an artistic inspiration. I seriously am in love with Yusuke Murata. The way he captures motion is so amazing. I think I'll try to draw an action piece next.

It's also been brought to my attention that Daeger bears a striking resemblance to Blank from FF9. I've not played FF9, but I did remember there being a character with a belt over his face. I figured if that was the only thing they had in common, I'd be okay. Honestly, I could rattle off about a dozen characters with similar covers on their face. BUT somehow I had ommited the fact that he had STITCHES as well from my memory. Stitches.

RARG!! 8<

The belt and stitches combo is a little bit too much similarity for me to feel comfortable, so I'll probably be altering Daeger's design slightly to ease my conscience. Some other type of cover on his face, maybe. I need something covering it, just perhaps not a gigantic belt.

Stupid coincidences.

Ok so...

I really need a post in order to make this crap layout work. I want to actually design my own layout for this biatch, but I'm really sleepy right now. And I don't want it to look like ass in the meantime. So. SKETCHDUMP. <3

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This is Daeger. He's a blind crazy demon who prefers firearms as his main choice of weaponry. But instead of being the awesome blind marksman who can nail a man from a mile away by listening, he'd prefer to just pelt the area with bullets until whatever it was stops moving. In fact, his answer to everything is usually, "Shoot it."

"If it's moving? Shoot it. If it's not moving? It's probably trying to trick you - shoot it."

Constructed from pieces and ball joints, Daeger's parts commonly fall or come apart, and he maintains control of them even when they are disconnected. His missing pieces are, well, missing. He's sure they're somewhere, but they're not really the type that can crawl back to him, so he hasn't found them yet.

Useless info you had no desire to know, get.